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awesome-broadcasting

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies
https://github.com/ebu/awesome-broadcasting

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  • Animation, Graphics & Video Playout

    • CasparCG - A professional graphics and video play-out software, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006.
    • Nebula - Media asset management and broadcast automation system.
    • NodeCG - Broadcast graphics rendered in a browser using Node.js.
    • ossia - A free and open-source intermedia sequencer.
    • Aurena - A network distributed media playback system.
    • Blender - 3D creation suite supporting 3D modelling, animation, motion tracking, video editing, and more (overview [here](https://developer.blender.org/)).
    • Bridge - Next generation graphics control software, with extension support.
    • ffplayout - Rust and FFmpeg based playout from folder or playlists.
    • Macadam - Blackmagic Node.js bindings that support HTML/CSS (via [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/)) and SVG (via [Sevruga](https://github.com/Streampunk/sevruga)) graphics.
    • Open Playout Automation - A CasparCG-based MCR play-out system.
    • Sofie - TV Automation - MOS-driven automation system for news casts, with many libraries for e.g. device control.
    • SPX - Graphics Controller - Graphics control client for live video productions and live streams.
    • StreamShapers - Ferryman - Web App to generate HTML-Graphics from Lottie.JSON files / from Adobe AfterEffects.
    • Studio TV Player - Simple TV studio player with SDI, NDI and MPEG TS outputs.
    • OGraf - Open specification for HTML based Graphics, used in live television and post production workflows.
    • caspar-obs-client - Python GUI application for seamless integration between CasparCG media servers and OBS Studio.

  • Blogs

  • Clocks & Studio Screens

    • OnAirScreen - Cross-platform "OnAir Lamp" solution targeted for use in professional broadcast environments.
    • PiClock - Customisable network based displays of clocks, on-air, mic live and other studio indicators.
    • PiClock Advanced - Improved version of PiRSClock-Full with changed layout, added timers and network capabilities.
    • PiRSClock-Full - Radio Studio Clock with studio indicators for mics, telephones etc.
    • OATIS - Server Based Studio Clock and Tally system, supporting messaging, physical GPI's and OSC triggering.

  • Codecs

    • FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Coding, used by some broadcasters for audio exchange, storage.
    • Lame - A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder.
    • opencore-amr - Audio codecs extracted from Android Open Source Project, including AAC.
    • Opus - A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
    • Turing Codec - An H.265/HEVC open source software encoder designed for fast and efficient video compression.
    • TwoLame - An MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder.
    • Turing Codec - An H.265/HEVC open source software encoder designed for fast and efficient video compression.

  • Communication

    • Intercom Manager - frontend) - Intercom system based on built by Eyevinn for SVT.
    • DYI intercom - Hardware + software intercom solution built around Murmur server and headless Mumble clients based on Rasperry Pi.

  • Companion Screens

    • dial-discovery-ios - A library for the discovery of devices via the DIAL protocol on the iOS platform.
    • dvbcss-synckit-ios - iOS libraries for companion screen applications that are synchronised frame-accurately to a TV.
    • dvbcss-synctiming - A system for measuring how accurately a TV or companion are synchronised.
    • pydvbcss - Implementation of the DVB Companion Screens and Streams protocols for synchronised media playback.

  • Connected TVs

    • Cross-Platform Authentication - CPA offers an open standard for associating any media device with an online identity.
    • HbbPlayer - An HbbTV and W3C specifications compliant application that can playback media from a URL.
    • CPA Authorization Provider - Reference implementation for linking media devices with online identities ([related repos](https://tech.ebu.ch/code) here).
    • TAL - The TV Application Layer (TAL) is an open source library for building applications for Connected TV devices.

  • Control Systems

    • BUG - Broadcast Universal Gateway - Control a wide range of broadcast and network equipment from your browser.
    • Bitfocus Companion - Enables the Elgato Streamdeck and other controllers to be a shotbox surface for an [increasing amount of broadcast equipment](https://bitfocus.io/connections).
    • Lawo EmberPlus - Ember Plus - open protocol for interfacing to / from broadcast control systems.
    • MIDIMonster - Lightweight adapter tool for common show control protocols.

  • Distributed Media Processing

    • StormCV - Apache Storm + OpenCV = large scale distributed image and video analysis.

  • Documentation

    • Kronekeeper - A web based application for recording and managing Krone frame records.

  • DVB & WiFi

    • DVB Inspector - An open-source DVB analyzer.
    • DVBlast - A simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
    • Opencaster - A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.
    • Project X - DVB demux tool.
    • TSDuck - Extensible toolkit for MPEG/DVB transport streams testing, monitoring, integration, debugging, and more.
    • WiFiBroadcast - Analog-like transmission of live video data.
    • DTT 2 IP - Broadcast to IP conversion for Wifi indoor coverage.
    • dvbshout - Tool to send DVB audio to a shoutcast server or a RTP stream.
    • Opencaster - A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.
    • ts2mpa - Simple tool to extract MPEG Audio from a MPEG Transport Stream (TS).

  • Hybrid Radio

  • LiveIP

    • butt - broadcast using this tool (butt) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports SHOUTcast and Icecast.
    • Cool Mic - Android audio livestreaming Icecast source client app.
    • DarkIce - Live audio streamer that records and encodes from an audio interface and sends to a streaming server.
    • Icecast - Streaming media (audio/video) server which supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3.
    • PJSIP - Open Source multimedia library implementing SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE.
    • trx - A simple toolset for broadcasting live audio from Linux.
    • DarkIce - Live audio streamer that records and encodes from an audio interface and sends to a streaming server.
    • EBU LIST - Live IP Software Toolkit to assist EBU members in the implementation of IP based facilities.
    • OpenOB - Open Outside Broadcast project for radio contribution links and studio-transmitter links based on Opus.
    • trx - A simple toolset for broadcasting live audio from Linux.
    • VideoIPath-Automation-Tool - A Python package for automating VideoIPath configuration workflows.
    • IRIS Broadcast - A project founded in Sweden to publish Open Source software for professional radio broadcasts.
    • Kamailio - Open SIP server, commonly used for Audio contribution over IP using SIP (EBU ACIP).

  • Media Players

    • IDJC - A GTK+ Shoutcast/Icecast client with two main media players.
    • MPD - A flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
    • mpg123 - A fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library.
    • Peaks.js - Browser-based audio waveform visualisation.
    • VLC - Simple, fast and powerful media player.
    • Dash.js - A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
    • GPAC - Multimedia player, packager and tools.
    • Kodi - A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.
    • Media4DPlayer - HTML5 player focused on accessibility.
    • Mixxx - A free, open source DJ software.
    • Peaks.js - Browser-based audio waveform visualisation.
    • rx-player - HTML5/Javascript video player that supports MPEG-DASH and SmoothStreaming.
    • VLC - Simple, fast and powerful media player.

  • Metadata

    • BMXlib - Library and utilities to read and write broadcasting media files. Primarily supports the MXF file format.
    • BMXlib - Library and utilities to read and write broadcasting media files. Primarily supports the MXF file format.
    • EBUCore - The Github for maintenance of the [EBUCore schema](https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3293.pdf).
    • jebu-core - Java port of [EBU Tech 3293](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/tech3293) EBU Core metadata, including the [Audio Definition Model](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/tech3364).
    • libadm - Audio Definition Model (ITU-R BS.2076) handling C++11 library.
    • libklvanc - C library for ancillary data extraction from SDI and SMPTE ST 2110-40 (CEA-708, AFD, SCTE-104, etc.).
    • MAJ API - Pure Java library for reading and writing MXF and AAF files.
    • SDPoker - CLI tool and library for testing SMPTE ST2110 SDP files.
    • TV-Anytime - The TV-Anytime schema github maintenance page.

  • Monitoring & Quality Control

    • JACK Meterbridge - A collection of graphical Audio meters for JACK (ballistics may be incorrect).
    • Jmeters - A collection of graphical audio meters for JACK, including VU, PPM and [EBU R 128](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/r128) Loudness meters.
    • MediaConch - Implementation checker, policy checker, & reporter for Matroska, FFV1, & PCM.
    • MediaInfo - A convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
    • Sonic Visualiser - An application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
    • a_Multiview - A web based multiview for HLS and Youtube links.
    • BeaqleJS - A framework to create browser based listening tests for subjective audio quality assessment.
    • Jack Meter - Text console based DPM (Digital Peak Meter) for JACK.
    • Jmeters - A collection of graphical audio meters for JACK, including VU, PPM and [EBU R 128](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/r128) Loudness meters.
    • LTC-tools - A collection of tools to handle Linear Timecode (LTC) and convert to MIDI Timecode (MTC).
    • MXF Inspect - A Windows tool to display the internal structure of an MXF (Material eXchange Format) file.
    • Pi Audio Monitor - Audio Monitoring for Raspberry Pi, supports S/PDIF, AES3, AES67, Livewire and Ravenna.
    • Photon - Implementation of the SMPTE Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standard.
    • QCTools - Quality Control tools for video preservation to analyse digitized video files.
    • Rotter - Recording of Transmissions / Audio Logger for JACK.
    • silan - Audiofile silence analyzer.
    • SilentJack - Dead-air / Silence detector for JACK.
    • VMAF - Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.
    • Wisual - A web service for Visual Quality Assessment, which supports PSNR, SSIM, VQM, etc.

  • Multimedia content processing

    • GStreamer - A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.
    • KFR - Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, DFT/FFT, Audio resampling, FIR/IIR, Biquad, EBU R 128.
    • LibAV - Open source audio and video processing tools.
    • MXFLib - A multi-platform C++ library for reading and writing MXF files.
    • Open Broadcast Encoder - Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components.
    • rgain - Tools and Python library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain.
    • Snowmix - Live Video Mixer.
    • AvTranscoder - FFmpeg/LibAV-based high-level API to re-wrap or transcode media, with bindings for Java and Python.
    • Beam Coder - Node.js native bindings to FFmpeg, with support for asynchronous processing via promises and streams.
    • Bento4 - Full-featured MP4 format and MPEG DASH C++ class library and tools.
    • Brave - Basic Real-time AV Editor - lets you preview, mix, and route live audio and video streams on the cloud.
    • Codem-isoboxer - based MPEG-4 (ISOBMFF) parser.
    • Dynamorse - IT swiss army knife - a Node-RED media pipeline builder, adding professional media processing nodes.
    • EBU ADM Renderer - Reference implementation of the EBU ADM Renderer ([EBU Tech 3388](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/tech3388))
    • FFmbc - FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.
    • FFmpeg - A cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Supports SMPTE ST 2110.
    • Flowblade - A multitrack non-linear video editor.
    • Kelvinadon - Node.JS pure Javascript module for streaming MXF files to and from JSON.
    • LibAV - Open source audio and video processing tools.
    • libbw64 - only Broadcast Wave 64 (ITU-R BS.2088) C++11 library.
    • libear - A C++11 library to render ADM content according to Recommendation ITU-R BS.2127.
    • Libebur128 - A library that implements the EBU R 128 standard for loudness normalisation.
    • Loudness Validator - A set of applications to analyse, visualise and correct the loudness.
    • MP4Box.js - JavaScript library to process MP4 files in the browser (and in NodeJS).
    • OBS-Studio - Software for live streaming and screen recording.
    • rgain3 - Tools and Python3 library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain - fork of the original by Felix Krull.
    • rtmp - Server implementation of Adobe's RTMP 1.0 protocol in Go.
    • SoX - The Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.
    • SVT Encore - Selfhosted video transcoding platform, built around FFmpeg.
    • TuttleOFX - An open source image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin standard.
    • VideoContext - Experimental HTML5/WebGL library for creating interactive and responsive web videos.
    • Voctomix - Customizable conference recording/mixing/streaming software based on Python and GStreamer.
    • L-SMASH - A rigidly spec-compliant ISOBMFF library, which has full DASH muxing support.
    • UPipe - Primarily designed to be the core of a multimedia player, transcoder or streamer.

  • Network & Storage Testing

  • NMOS

    • Networked Media Open Specifications
    • AMWA NMOS Testing Tool - Automated test suites for the AMWA NMOS family of specifications, as used in the [JT-NM Tested](https://www.jt-nm.org/jt-nm-tested) programme
    • NVIDIA NMOS Docker - Docker container with Registry and Controller, IS-04/05/08/07/09, BCP-003-01
    • BBC NMOS Joint Reference Implementation - A Vagrant provisioning to build 4 virtual machines, an IS-04/IS-05 Node, IS-04 Registry, BCP-003-02 Authorisation Server, and the NMOS Testing Tool.
    • DELTACAST IP Virtual Card NMOS samples - A demonstration of the integration of several NMOS standards with the DELTACAST IP Virtual Card through [nmos-cpp](https://github.com/sony/nmos-cpp).
    • Easy-NMOS - A starter kit that allows the user to launch a simple NMOS setup with minimal installation steps, composed of three Docker containers: an NMOS Registry, a virtual NMOS Node, and the AMWA NMOS Testing Tool.
    • nmos-cpp - An implementation of the AMWA Networked Media Open Specifications in C++, including an NMOS Registry and a toolkit and example of building an NMOS Node.
    • nmos-device-control-mock - A mock device implementation of the NMOS Control & Monitoring suite (IS-12, BCP-008-01, BCP-008-02), written in Typescript and running on the NodeJS stack.
    • nmos-js - A simple browser-based NMOS Client/Controller with an IS-04 Registry browser and IS-05 Connection Management.
    • NVIDIA NMOS Library - A simple-to-use C/C++ library for adding an NMOS Node to your application, with support for IS-04, IS-05, BCP-002-01, BCP-002-02, BCP-004-01, etc.

  • Podcasting

    • AntennaPod - A podcast manager for Android ([antennapod.org](https://antennapod.org/)).
    • Anytime Podcast Player - Free and easy to use podcast player for Android and iOS ([anytimeplayer.app](https://anytimeplayer.app/)).
    • Castopod - Podcast Hosting and Broadcasting ([castopod.org](https://castopod.org/)).
    • gPodder - Media aggregator and podcast client.
    • Podlove Publisher - Podcast Publisher for WordPress.
    • Podlove Web Player - Podcast-optimized, HTML5-based video and audio player.
    • Ultraschall - Suite of Plugins and UI tweaks to use with the DAW [Reaper](https://www.reaper.fm/) tailored towards Podcasters ([ultraschall.fm](https://ultraschall.fm/))

  • Radio Production

    • Ardour - A digital audio workstation.
    • Audacity - Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
    • LibreTime - Radio broadcast & automation platform (fork of Airtime).
    • OpenBroadcaster
    • Airtime - Radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based schedule).
    • AzuraCast - A self-hosted web radio management suite.
    • Liquidsoap - A Swiss army knife for multimedia streaming ([documentation](https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc.html)).
    • OpenBroadcaster
    • RAAR - A ruby application to manage and browse an audio archive.
    • Rivendell - Complete radio broadcast automation solution, translated to many languages and used worldwide.

  • Rundown Automation

    • OnTime - Web based time keeping system for live events with a broadcast clock view.
    • SuperConductor - Rundown/playout controller for CasparCG Server, BMD ATEM, OBS Studio, vMix, OSC-compatible devices, HTTP (REST)-compatible devices among others.

  • SCTE-35

    • threefive - SCTE-35 Parser and Encoder for MPEGTS.
Programming Languages
Python 22 C++ 19 JavaScript 18 C 15 TypeScript 6 Java 5 PHP 4 Go 2 Objective-C 2 CSS 2
Categories
Multimedia content processing 34 Monitoring & Quality Control 19 Animation, Graphics & Video Playout 16 Blogs 15 Media Players 13 LiveIP 13 Video Production 13 Subtitling 11 NMOS 10 DVB & WiFi 10 Radio Production 10 Metadata 9 Network & Storage Testing 7 Podcasting 7 Codecs 7 Software-defined radio 6 Hybrid Radio 6 Clocks & Studio Screens 5 Control Systems 4 Connected TVs 4 Companion Screens 4 SCTE-35 & SCTE-104 3 Rundown Automation 2 Streaming 2 Communication 2 SCTE-35 1 Distributed Media Processing 1 Documentation 1
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